Teenager builds app to promote Indian Culture to Tourists

“India Story” – an app to chronicle the story of India through its monuments – was built by a 17-year-old teenager, Avantika Khanna, from Gurgaon, India. The app had been launched for both the Android and iOS platforms and provides audio-guides in cities like Kolkata, Bangalore, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Mumbai, and Delhi.
The Social Entrepreneur’s idea was born during a family trip to UK a few years ago, where she realized the perfect maintenance of monuments, and audio-guided tours. Both of these aspects of tourism were not so good in India, along with the unavailability of guides in certain lesser known monuments. This triggered the fire in her to promote India’s rich history and culture to the world using technology, and she began working on “India Story” way back in 2016. Today, avantika handles a total of 30 staff – writers, photographers, history lovers, and programmers – who works as a team. Certified tour guides can be contacted through the app along with organizers of cultural walks.Both the app’s user interface and the business model, was designed by Avantika herself. She has been able to raise seed funding from the Indian Angel Network, only after overcoming many hurdles. She now looks forward to expanding to more states and cities.